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Alessandro Teixeira
Head, ApexBrazil and President, WAIPA
Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira holds a PhD in Technological and Industrial Competitiveness from the University of Sussex, England, and a master’s degree in Latin American Economics from the University of São Paulo.
He took part in the creation and later presided the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development – ABDI, was the Coordinator of the Industrial, Technological and Foreign Trade Policy of the Brazilian Federal Government, and Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Council for Industrial Development – CNDI, as well as Counselor for the Sectorial Funds of the Ministry of Science and Technology – MCT.
Currently, Alessandro Teixeira is the President of the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency – Apex-Brasil. Since April, 2008, he also holds the presidency of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies – WAIPA – the organization that gathers the investment promotion agencies (IPAs) of 156 countries. On August, 2008, Alessandro Teixeira was nominated “Personality of the Year 2008 – Latin America” by the British journal The Financial Times.